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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

Produciton: Flute Theatre (UK)

Directed by Kelly Hunter

  • 5 JULY at 20.00
  • Vila Stanković, Čortanovci
  • Duration: 1h 40’
  • Ticket price: 1.200 din.
  • Language: english / with serbian subtitle
  • *(U slučaju vremenskih nepogoda predstava se izvodi u SNP, Novi Sad)

COMPANY

Carina de Jesus Abi-Saber / Hermia, Snout the Tinker, Mustardseed
Catherine Kay / Titania, Helena, Snug the Joiner, Hippolyta
Jacob Lovick / Lysander, Flute the Bellows mender, Cobweb
Mercedes Maresca / Starveling the Tailor, Peaseblossom
Mohit Mathur / Oberon, Theseus
Aleix Mele / Puck
Joshua Welch / Bottom, Demetrius

Kelly Hunter / Director, Adaptor
Craig West / Lighting Design
Alice Hallifax / Design
Natasha Haward / Assistant Director
Mercedes Maresca / Musician

ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE

Our lovers, our fairies and our mechanicals see with their ears, hear with their eyes, taste with their hands and speak with their hearts. Our company of seven performers is onstage for the whole play transforming again and again in front of your eyes. Our dreams inform our waking hours informing our playing of the play and the play within the play. Are you sure we are awake? These things seem small and indistinguishable, like far off mountains turned into clouds. We are awake!

Our Double Dream can be performed twice – for the festival audience and then again in an essential way for autistic audiences in whichever language they best understand.

FLUTE THEATRE

We are renowned for our innovative productions of Shakespeare including specialised shows for autistic individuals, refugees and those displaced by war. These productions use the award-winning Hunter Heartbeat Method. We perform internationally, adapting the language of our performances to the needs and ears of our audience. Our previous mainstage productions include Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Pericles, and The Tempest.

DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY

Kelly Hunter is a theatre director, actor and writer. In 2014 she founded Flute Theatre as a home for her unique adaptations of Shakespeare. She is the creator of the Hunter Heartbeat Method, a series of sensory games based on Shakespeare developed since 2022. These games form the basis of her specialized productions for autistic individuals and refugee families.

She has an MBE for her services to theatre and holds an honorary degree at the University of Birmingham.

SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL 2024

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Shakespeare is a phenomenon, like the sun and the moon. All attempts to pin him down in any way are childish and stupid – his plays can speak directly to people of every race and every level, at every moment of world history. But how? The 36-odd plays can be brought out in academic, repetitive or even childish ways. To bring any play, any role, any line, any word of Shakespeare is an ever-changing, ever-challenging task. We need the help of knowing what others are attempting. For this reason, the Shakespeare festival is vital.

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